Arroyo flashes all-around game as Reds down Brewers

CINCINNATI (Ticker) -- The Cincinnati Reds may have entered
Monday tied for last place in the National League Central, but
it may be the Milwaukee Brewers who are showing their
frustration the most.

Bronson Arroyo tossed six strong innings and helped his own
cause with a two-run double, sending the Reds to a 6-3 victory
over the Brewers.

Arroyo (10-8) yielded one run and four hits with two walks and
six strikeouts to post his sixth win over his last seven starts,
a stretch in which he has a 3.67 ERA for the Reds (52-61), who
are tied with Pittsburgh (51-60) in the NL Central Division
cellar.

"I have been feeling good for about a month-and-a-half to two
months," Arroyo said. "(When) I feel confident and strong with
my fastball and I am able to hit both sides of the plate, I feel
like I always have a chance to win."

The righthander even helped key Cincinnati's offense, breaking
open a scoreless game in the fifth as he came to the plate
following a single by Jolbert Cabrera - Cincinnati's first hit
of the night - and two walks by Milwaukee starter Manny Parra
(9-5) with a liner to the wall in left.

"I have been swinging the bat well, but I always say that
(getting hits as a pitcher) is luck because you don't get enough
looks to make it a real job," Arroyo said of his double.

Two batters later, rookie Joey Votto grounded a two-run single
past first baseman Prince Fielder to increase the Reds lead to
4-0.

Parra's only other mistake of the night was an outside fastball
to rookie Jay Bruce in the sixth, which he sent 381 feet to left
field for a two-run home run.

The lefthander allowed six runs and four hits over six innings,
walking four and striking out six.

However, the hardest hit of the night may have come after he
exited the game.

Parra and Fielder appeared to be arguing nondescriptly in the
dugout - presumably over Votto's grounder that the pitcher
thought his first baseman should have been able to field - when
Fielder shoved Parra in the chest and hit him in the face.

The altercation may personify the frustration of the Brewers'
team at the moment, as they have lost eight of 11 games.

"It's not a big deal," Brewers manager Ned Yost said of the
fight. "For eight months of the year, we are a family, at times
things flair up. But it is between the family and in the
family.

"It is a little bit rude when your next-door neighbor is
fighting for you to go knock on the door and ask what happened.
We handle it between us and it is nobody's business what
happened."

Yost, who got in a fight last year on August 2 with then-Brewers
catcher Johnny Estrada in the dugout, denied that there would be
any sort of disciplinary action as a result of the fight.

"We handled it our own way; it wasn't a major deal," Yost said.
"Believe what you want. It is an in-house thing. It's in
between our family. There is a privacy issue here somewhere and
just because it is on TV does not make it anybody's right to
know what happened."

One of the leading causes of the Brewers' tension may be their
inability to hit with runners in scoring position, getting only
10 hits over their last 100 at-bats with a runner on second or
third.

"I just know that that type of stuff goes in cycles," Yost said.
"The thing that you don't do is continue to beat it. You focus
on coming in the next day and see if that is not the start when
it turns around."

While Parra and Fielder were having words in the dugout, Mike
Cameron launched a solo home run to left off of reliever Gary
Majewski - which along with a RBI single from Corey Hart in the
sixth and a solo homer by Ryan Braun in the eighth - comprised
the Brewers' scoring.

After the two relievers before him each allowed solo shots,
Francisco Cordero worked a scoreless ninth for his 22nd save of
the season.

NLAT CINCINNATI - SCORING UPDATESOLO HOME RUN BY RYAN BRAUN (30) TO LEFT WITH 1 OUT IN THE 8TH OFF DAVID WEATHERS.CURRENT SCORE: MILWAUKEE 3, CINCINNATI 6DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: P FIELDER (.281, 1-FOR-2, BB)

NLAT CINCINNATI - SCORING UPDATESOLO HOME RUN BY MIKE CAMERON (17) TO LEFT WITH 0 OUT IN THE 7TH OFF GARY MAJEWSKI.CURRENT SCORE: MILWAUKEE 2, CINCINNATI 6DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: J KENDALL (.242, 0-FOR-2)